Put it on your calendar - The Sans 2009 Forensic Summit is now on the books and scheduled for July 7-8 2009 in Washington DC. Ovie will be there speaking about Current Trends and the Future of Forensics.

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The Digital Forensics Certification Board (DFCB) founded by the National Institute of Justice through a CooperativeAgreement at the University of Central Florida's National Center for Forensic Science are accepting applications for Founders certification.For a limited time, March 2, 2009 through August 30, 2009 experienced members of the digital forensics community can achieve these certifications through the Founders Process. Go to http://www.ncfs.org/dfcb/index.html for more information.

Welcome back to CyberSpeak. Bret and Ovie are back in the country. This show we have an interview with the developers of Highlighter, a new log analysis tool, Jed Mitten - Senior Consultant and Jason Luttgens - Principal Consultant from Mandiant. Check out this free tool at www.mandiant.com/software/highlighter.htm. Also, check out the Mandiant blog for some other tools. In listener email we discuss U3 thumb drives and encryption and schools doing data recovery without a private investigatorÃs license. Helix pro is being released and the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn has discovered a digital fingerprint that will allow you to tie a digital image to a specific made and model of camera. Web picks are www.tineye.com and www.spokeo.com .

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